Gun Digest Shooter's Guide to Handgun Marksmanship

by Peter Lessler

Overview

Gun Digest Shooter's Guide to Handgun Marksmanship helps you master foundational marksmanship skills for shooting pistols and revolvers, safe firearm handling, and efficient firearm manipulation. It includes all fundamental physical and mental techniques for accuracy, efficiency, safety and speed. It explains the techniques, how they work, why we use them, how to perform them, and how to diagnose and analyze your own performance.

Firearms instructor and author Peter Lessler helps you maximize effectiveness through an understanding of the fundamentals, including:

• Using the sights
• Trigger management
• The draw
• Reloading
• Malfunction clearances
• Hitting faster
• Multiple targets
• Practice drills
• And more!

FEATURES

• Complete and simple explanations teach the fundamental techniques required to perform well.
• Step-by-step instructions illustrate how to perform the techniques properly, and help you to practice, and analyze and correct your performance.
• Hundreds of clear, detailed photos illustrate the techniques.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440236068
Publisher:	Gun Digest Media
Publication date:	08/05/2013
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	701,594
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Peter Lessler is an expert-level graduate of Col. Jeff Cooper's General Pistol 250 and Rifle 270 courses. He is also a ranked IPSC/USPSA competitor, a Project Appleseed Rifle Marksmanship instructor, and an NRA High Power Rifle competitor. He has previously authored Gun Digest Shooter's Guide to Rifle Marksmanship.

Table of Contents

Introduction 4

The Four Safety Rules 6

Chapter 1 Mindset 7

Chapter 2 Sights and Sight Picture 24

Chapter 3 Proper Management of the Trigger 35

Chapter 4 The Modern Isosceles Stance and Technique 43

Chapter 5 Perfecting the Fundamentals 63

Chapter 6 The Draw 71

Chapter 7 The Reload 87

Chapter 8 Correcting Malfunctions 107

Chapter 9 Hitting Faster 132

Chapter 10 Multiple Target Transitions 151

Chapter 11 Shooting Moving Targets 157

Chapter 12 One-Handed Shooting 163

Chapter 13 Practice Drills 171

Chapter 14 Professional Training and Competition 188